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STORY: GENEVA/ YEMEN CASUALTIES
TRT: 1:25
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 AUGUST 2016 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
RECENT – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1.Ariel shot, exterior, the Palais des Nations, Geneva
12 AUGUST 2016 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, pan to right briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Laerke, Spokesperson, UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“Children and women are being killed and maimed, homes are being destroyed, both by ground fighting and air strikes, particularly in Sana’a city and the Governorate of Sana’a, Sa’ada, Taizz, and Al Hudaydah.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“The number of civilian casualties in Yemen has been steadily mounting over the past few weeks. During the month of July, at least 60 civilians were killed and 123 others injured. And over the past week, that is since last Friday, 49 civilians were killed and another 77 injured.”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“Each side is responsible for the civilian casualties. Now in the month of July in fact the number of casualties attributable to air strikes fell quite dramatically, and it was the shelling the rocket fire the indiscriminate killings by the Houthis which rose considerably. In the last week, the Coalition has resumed airstirkes in Sana’a among other places and airstrikes by their very nature tend to cause more damage and more casualties”.
8. Close up, Spokesperson
9. Close up, camerawoman
The United Nations is deeply alarmed by the intensification of violence in Yemen, a spokesperson of the UN Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told reporters in Geneva today (12 Aug).
OCHA Spokesperson Jens Laerke said "children and women are being killed and maimed, homes being destroyed by both ground fighting and air strikes, particularly in Sana’a city and the Governorates of Sana’a, Sa’ada, Taizz, and Al Hudaydah.”
Referring to the sharply increasing number of civilian casualties over last few weeks, the UN Human Rights Spokesperson Ravina Shandasani said "during the month of July, at least 60 civilians were killed and 123 others injured. And over the past week, that is since last Friday, 49 civilians were killed and another 77 injured.”
Attributing the increased civilian casualties to both sides of the fighting, the Houthi militias responsible for the ousting of Yemen's government, and the Arab military coalition led by Saudi Arabia at the request of the Yemeni President, Shamdasani said “each side is responsible for the civilian casualties."
She added “in the month of July in fact the number of casualties attributable to air strikes fell quite dramatically, and it was the shelling the rocket fire the indiscriminate killings by the Houthis which rose considerably. In the last week, the Coalition has resumed airstrikes, in Sana’a among other places, and airstrikes by their very nature tend to cause more damage and more casualties.”
The last round of talks for the Yemen peace process ended in Kuwait on 6 August.
